Vijayawada: The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) has decided to set up garbage transfer stations under decentralised transfer stations concept, in order to make the city trash-free.
The VMC is collecting garbage through bins installed in all localities of the city. Now under the new concept, the segregated garbage will be collected directly from the household and will be dumped at the garbage transfer station. The VMC would spend Rs 15.4 crore under the project to turn Vijayawada a clean city.
The VMC presently has identified five locations for setting up garbage transfer stations within the city limits for easy transfer of household garbage. They are Housing Board Colony, Jakkampudi STP premises, Auto Nagar garbage transfer station, Ramalingeswara Nagar and one will be set up either at AS Nagar or Vambay Colony.
VMC Commissioner V Prasanna Venkatesh explained that each transfer station was a closed structure and would have a capsule. The garbage collected from the household through a portable compactor vehicle would be dumped in the capsule and the garbage would be compressed with the hopper and hook loader would remove the compressed garbage blocks.
Venkatesh said that Rs 15.4 crore was sanctioned and tendering process was underway. He explained that the project would complete in one year to transform Vijayawada into a garbage bin-free city under which 220 vehicles would ply on the roads to collect garbage from households and to take it to the garbage transfer station. He said distribution of three dustbins one each for dry, wet and hazardous waste had started and soon the bins would be distributed to all the 3.2 lakh households across the city.
Venkatesh said depending on the quantity of waste generated in that particular location, compactors and hook loaders were planned at the transfer stations.
